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Legal Research at Amherst College

If you plan to study legal research, take a look at what Amherst College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and approximately 1,745 students attend the school each year. Of the 468 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College in 2021, 21 of them were legal research majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Legal Research section at the bottom of this page.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Research

Each year, College Factual ranks legal research programs across the country. The following shows how Amherst performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The legal research major at Amherst is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Research. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Focused Legal Research Bachelor’s Degree Schools 2
Most Popular Legal Research Bachelor’s Degree Schools 3
Most Focused Legal Research Schools 13

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal research majors at Amherst College.

57% Women
57% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 21 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in legal research from Amherst. About 43% were men and 57% were women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal research bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's in legal research.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 9
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Amherst also has a doctoral program available in legal research. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

A degree in legal research can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Amherst College.

Occupation Jobs in MA Average Salary in MA
Lawyers 18,420 $165,610
Law Professors 610 $137,150

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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